Waking Thoughts in Brief Soliloquies.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2542, 28 February 1877, Page 2

Waking Thoughts in Brief Soliloquies.

Our life is twofold; sleep hath its own/wmjdyjow ■ = 7TAi boiuidar ! y..betw£?n tne,.thinga f ß9iisnajiued— w , " } fr^^fch^©dJ?-y-^s^Qr i e,^.a&4y.estj^,l^d^J| Where shall Ii:b fefte)*9ay.?i hDIi-'tan-y©^ Vfife'atet^of;-^'ln thos^ iia^pa'pe'rs, fliflolf I^|itii#ffi|i;ag UuemEWedVAijAigpuad.lftcked.up.and all that sort of thing; and askirig'as thotfgfc might be? These'timesTat«rr,iißve]:Hii»ar jn%!W&nf [W6 -fiHioß^jf % fcfnffl wbichl^e i: isme are for the: use, some for ortiafaieMi wish—l niean, of course^ these techous dld^ol«^thSt'WJtfouM'4<>'^<*^l3fiifts asfd^pokre^iid ipri)be[»'arid .sab wh4t Tgfcnk was done, and every timber feel, as if perchance it might be insecure ; and try to spy out if those who have the mine are working it, and if not, to let others have

a chance. They say I'm paid for doing work like this, and therefore I should do it. What fools men are, strangely dissimilar to that wisgr sex, which we call weaker. These, blest be their eyes and lips, will willingly believe ali that is told them, and when they see me dad in oilskin coat —my custom sometimes of an afternoon—rush to the conclusion that I've been down mines. They never ask the common, vulgar question, " What's he done," or "Where's he been;" but though proverbially curious to find out that which is hid, take it for granted I've been doing good, so much jnorc. Some blatant foal thffOther daar did write asking tnW*lT 4llould«4iiel and not Know that work is va'ued now-a-days not for its qatlitypifesmwJiaSit costs P Thus those who would disdain, the use ofL. ihijjgs_,th,ejr, wish for if offered .fr^m^ome^ base Ae6hfnw's;',liand|';VJU. delight J pay thrice three'-^imes^th^ sum for tfieV same things >i£ but exhibited within tho windqjtJp£^M,elVJ^<^«.^l» liiMSepot spector here of haK.^his pay and ho, though he may r wp|k much *& Uere|pfore, WmWtliin if be jjj&flflei fflMlß ■te?P ryad W%°'^W-& |^f»3 d r .f : gun and two men finder him, ! ana tted will then believe in wharne "lays, though he one I mean who earns ms pay,' as I domust Tsome sort of- an appearance still--i himself adroadr, ana so mi^ r X go.by light, and though it 1 is the easiest to in the leye, irad" whrnthey wiiaf tHey -wfsh 3 -it-to be, arid "take' ao| trouble t^Jnd^ put, th.c hidde% m|/ they do r ayoj^tfiysel'l^mgYw'Eich^ are oa moralising—tis* not &%s&wW£9a ..^i-j bi;eakfßsk^me,#«w^jMM.'» %S^' wli*^eto ,Iji 4pffl9fio#y., lK^b^al fyJ&il !*s here, so I need not sit for half^'shout 1;;., >eliind.A-JtQQden .bench and. Jifiat-JQiy. seliL sailed " Worship "or " Washap." Supposft I really do inspect a mine to-day P ITwould be an odd sensation, and novelty ■ U pleasing, sOiTj&IHII^IMiI then t^ere '^s the getting up and down and all the the Feat. I sKoutu not toind it mvich ix there were crowds tjjwe tQ. applaud, and ishout and clap,-'ana -its they sair my ■mud stained head appear give forth a long and well sustained "fnolkt something like corjy -of Mllon^lome-toryel^^Tlid* Inspector's ■^dpn&.liis du|y ; ," JA^ut these are waking 'vTsV6n's^of;tb#brain,'-for me no crowds will raise triumphant shout, and p I won't go down aTmine at all. I'm a conser-yatF^'J^^fl. r qJd-cWst °m&. ,a^d wilL; kfidk 1 !o^henSM4)f|ffi^tf &feinß>f|| papers veUa, anu at f one-o'ftlock a slightftlie iffnlrMn, 1! will a»oad> !my trusty sui^,qf_,ojlskin| ) sent before, blose to the grduna'dFs&me unworked gn fhese—l mean me trowsers—will walk ichance to meet to snow tnac I do not mind ;beiß«^e.en^ai.w f qrkiin^ 9 cloJhef^ (Calls me to appear in them. It may be jthought that they .iJKt>*e^Hfe;too^cie,an.; : ,J-t ;know these mines are not like drawing*. |rooms,».sD>J3rilb3Dltafe.ffiafo myself much jclay wherewith the oily garments to janoitefy* %nd face and handa at .wel^ land that too, plenteously, lest I seem itoo clean, and give .to ribald— -men Ifood to make jests of. . Let me see, what 'time's the best? Say 4 p.m., for then I jfancy miners^ mosl^dtf congregate, some ifrom the work,av^yr««Bo ( to' fresh toil; I till then, thougltfs ajboult miners, adieu! I Ah, me, that s6uMl i^the breakfast | bell. I wilijthfck n^mdre lest that my 1 chops be col^, o>y egga Jiard^ boiled, my i tea lukewarm^'df^Sify^ o^ker nuisance • should take place; saeii' lfes"a Mining In* jspector here is heir"tSSf Hang it, when will the close season for oystera be at an end. Well igukkl^a^a steak f ji%a few fat bivalves. B Theil ax rioon^w^hat 1' more delicious than a plate of natives and a clear glass of Ehrenfried's trebJ&X! Fancy! Four months in the year without oysters.